Addiction Medicine

2024 HRS - Cultural Catalyst: Igniting Change Through Collective Empowerment

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2024 HRS - Sex Work In Harm Reduction A Kentucky Perspective

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2024 HRS - Defining Stimulant Use Disorder Within Harm Reduction Framework

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

SMART Recovery: SMART Recovery for Concerned Loved Ones & Family and Friends

SMART Recovery tools uses evidence-based methods that have been proven to be more successful than harsh interventions or complete detachment, but if often not recommended by healthcare professionals when...

Q&A SMART Recovery: SMART Recovery for Concerned Loved Ones & Family and Friends

SMART Recovery tools uses evidence-based methods that have been proven to be more successful than harsh interventions or complete detachment, but if often not recommended by healthcare professionals when...

Syringe Services Programs

Syringe Services Programs (SSP’s), also called Syringe Exchange Programs (SEP’s), are a key component of a comprehensive strategy to address the opioid, HIV and Hepatitis C epidemics, providing...

Treatment of OUD in LGBTQ+ Populations

Individuals that identify as LGBTQ+ have unique healthcare needs and treatment considerations. Understanding Minority Stress and how this affects recovery is crucial for the treatment of OUD in the LGBTQ+...

Making Strong Referrals for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Individuals with substance use disorders often face barriers to seeking sustainable resources to improve their recovery capital.  Transition between care settings presents vulnerabilities to individuals...

Q&A Making Strong Referrals for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Individuals with substance use disorders often face barriers to seeking sustainable resources to improve their recovery capital.  Transition between care settings presents vulnerabilities to individuals...

Overview of Xylazine

Xylazine is a non-opioid used as a sedative for animals and is gaining emergence across the USA.  Xylazine is most often found mixed into opioids like fentanyl to extend the effects. Many individuals...

Q&A Overview of Xylazine

Xylazine is a non-opioid used as a sedative for animals and is gaining emergence across the USA.  Xylazine is most often found mixed into opioids like fentanyl to extend the effects. Many individuals...

Q&A Session for Chronic Pain Management in PWUD

Pain is often misunderstood and not adequately treated by providers. Additionally, studies have shown that there is a provider bias when treating non-white patients for chronic pain.  As a result,...

A Discussion on Boundaries for Peer Support Specialists and Care Navigators

Peer support specialist (PSS) and care navigation services, especially in SUD treatment, is a novel growing field and it is important for these individuals to understand their profession role and...

Q&A A Discussion on Boundaries for Peer Support Specialists and Care Navigators

Peer support specialist (PSS) and care navigation services, especially in SUD treatment, is a novel growing field and it is important for these individuals to understand their profession role and...

Healing the Opioid Crisis with Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: Outcomes and Mechanisms of An Evidence-Based Therapy for Chronic Pain, Opioid Misuse, and Addiction

The opioid crisis and chronic pain have been empirically linked to the rising tide of morbidity and mortality (↑ 0.5% a year since 1998) observed among white U.S. adults.  Opioid addiction and...

Q&A Healing the Opioid Crisis with Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: Outcomes and Mechanisms of An Evidence-Based Therapy for Chronic Pain, Opioid Misuse, and Addiction

The opioid crisis and chronic pain have been empirically linked to the rising tide of morbidity and mortality (↑ 0.5% a year since 1998) observed among white U.S. adults.  Opioid addiction and...

Q&A for Treatment of OUD in LGBTQ+ Populations

Individuals that identify as LGBTQ+ have unique healthcare needs and treatment considerations. Understanding Minority Stress and how this affects recovery is crucial for the treatment of OUD in the LGBTQ+...

Cancer, Pain, and Opioid Use Disorder

Almost two million Americans are diagnosed with a new cancer and 33% will experience moderate or severe pain.  Patients who are also diagnosed with an Opioid Use...

Q&A Session Cancer, Pain, and Opioid Use Disorder

Almost two million Americans are diagnosed with a new cancer and 33% will experience moderate or severe pain.  Patients who are also diagnosed with an Opioid Use...

CPD 1: LAN MAT: What You Need to Know - An Overview of Long-acting Naltrexone (LAN)

Opioid misuse and addiction is a serious national crisis.

• Affects public health and social and economic welfare.
• Daily, more than 90 Americans die after overdosing on opioids.
...
Faculty

Melanie Dicks, PharmD

CPD 2: Risky Business - Screening Patients for Substance Use Disorder

According to the Substance Use Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) nearly 80% of people with an opiate use disorder do not receive treatment. Because of this more healthcare providers need to screen...

CPD 3: Help Me Find My Way - Referring Patients to Treatment & Resources

According to the Substance Use Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) nearly 80% of people with an opiate use disorder do not receive treatment. More healthcare providers need to screen for substance...

CPD 4: Medications Used to Treat Opiate Use Disorder​

Substance use disorder (OUD) is a treatable, chronic disease that often involves cycles of relapse and remission. Individuals who are under the influence of these substances often engage in risky and...

CPD 5: Powering Recovery - Other Substance Use Disorder Treatments

According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, addiction is a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and...

CPD 6: Pain & Promise - Pain Management and Patient Contracts

Higher opioid prescribing puts patients at risk for addiction and overdose. According to the CDC (2016) since 1999 more than 165,000 people have died of an overdose related to prescription opioids and as many...

CPD 7: Crosstalk - Communicating and Addressing Patient Challenges

Substance use disorder (SUD) is a treatable, chronic disease that often involves cycles of relapse and remission due to complex interactions in the brain, heredities, and an individual’s environment...

Beacons of Hope: Discussing Naloxone with Patients

Current primary care practice sites are ripe with patients who may need naloxone as a reversal agent to be used in the event of an opioid overdose or emergency. Primary care providers need additional education...

Weighing the Odds: LAN MAT Risks & Benefits

Current primary care practice sites are rarely providing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) as part of the comprehensive care needed for patients who suffer from substance use disorder (SUD) and are seen in...

You Want to Know What?: The Importance of Patient Screening

Opioid misuse and addiction is a serious national crisis that affects public health and social and economic welfare. Daily, more than 90 Americans die after overdosing on opioids.

The treatment of...

Discussing LAN MAT with Provider - Patient Vignette

This is an encounter for a new patient to a primary care practice where all patients are screened for drug and alcohol use. The patient is going to complete a DAST-10 Questionnaire which asks a series of...

How to Use Nalaxone - Patient Vignette

In this vignette, the Pharmacist is meeting with a Patient who is potentially at risk of an opioid overdose. The Patient has been on a short course and has just received another prescription for...

Pharmacy-based initiative in the treatment of Opioid Use Disorder and Harm Reduction

Pharmacy-based care normalizes receipt of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), which may increase treatment engagement and reduce stigma and overdose...

Tips for Prescribing/Dispensing Controlled Substances Within the Law

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Part 2: The Intersection of Criminal Legal system Involvement and Behavioral Health for Treatment

Faculty

Q&A The ADA and Its Implications for Patients with OUD: A Workshop

Patients with opioid use disorder have a disability that is protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),...

Q&A Session for Alcohol Use Disorder in the Hospitalized Patient

Alcohol consumption is common and with that, alcohol use disorder (AUD) is also common. It is estimated that 20% of patients admitted to the hospital have an alcohol use disorder. Learning to diagnose AUD...

Alcohol Use Disorder in the Hospitalized Patient

Alcohol consumption is common and with that, alcohol use disorder (AUD) is also common. It is estimated that 20% of patients admitted to the hospital have an alcohol use disorder. Learning to diagnose AUD...

The ADA and Its Implications for Patients with OUD: A Workshop

Patients with opioid use disorder have a disability that is protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),...

Harm Reduction in the Time of Fentanyl: A Canadian Perspective

Faculty

Opioid and Cannabinoid Interactions: Abuse Potential and Clinical implications

Individuals that use opioids often use cannabinoids Faculty

Rapid Drug Testing and Checking

Faculty

Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine

Individuals with OUD need more treatment options that can address...

Part 1: The Intersection of Criminal Legal system Involvement and Behavioral Health

Faculty

Q&A Session: Functional Family Therapy: A Strong Foundation for Practice with Families Who Are Stuck

If you ask most people what is important to them, Faculty

Reducing Stigma: The Past, Present and Future of Recovery

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Racial Inequities in Substance Use Treatment

Overdose deaths per 100,000 people occur at a higher rate with the Black/Non-Hispanic and American Indian, Alaska Natives than with White/Non-Hispanic group.  Culturally responsive services are crucial to...

2022 HRS - Potential Sequelae of Injection Drug Use

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2022 HRS - Recovery Capital: Assets, Not Abstinence

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2022 HRS - The Kentucky Opioid Response Effort: Harm Reduction Principles and Strategies

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2022 HRS - Building A Movement To End The Intersecting Issues Of Overdose, Homelessness And Incarceration

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2022 HRS - Building a Peer Workforce to Support Harm Reduction and Wellness

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2022 HRS - OnPoint NYC: Safe Consumption New York

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

The Beautiful Boy

Health care providers, family members, and friends need to have the skills to prevail over the anger and hopelessness that is felt when dealing with the affliction of addiction by utilizing "great...

Can we talk? Navigating the Challenging Conversation Concerning Suicide

In a time when behavioral health issues are being discussed...

Navigating Healthcare

Healthcare workers have...

Questions and Scenarios for Navigating Healthcare 

Healthcare workers have...

Viewing Substance Use Through a Trauma-Informed Lens

The purpose of this training is to educate the participants about the Trauma-Informed Care Continuum and the pervasiveness of trauma in our communities, including the current opioid crisis and substance use...

Updated Overview of Substance Use Disorder

Understanding addiction is essential to successfully addressing it. By understanding the neurological responses to substances and theories of addiction, participants will better be able to treat patients with...

Substance Use Disorder: Language and Stigma

Language can be used intentionally or unintentionally to perpetuate stigma in a healthcare setting. Changing our language is a crucial component of reducing stigma to improve the lives and health of people who...

Behavioral Addictions

Several behaviors—including gambling, internet gaming, and binge eating—significantly Faculty

Questions and Scenarios for Behavioral Addictions

In recent years, there has been an increase in the use and subsequent harm from synthetic substances available in “headshops” and online. Awareness of these substances and their effects is...

Q&A and Scenarios for Substance Use Disorder: Language and Stigma

Language can be used intentionally or unintentionally to perpetuate stigma in a healthcare setting. Changing our language is a crucial component of reducing stigma to improve the lives and health of people who...

Q&A and Scenarios for Updated Overview of Substance Use Disorder

Understanding addiction is essential to successfully addressing it. By understanding the neurological responses to substances and brain changes that occur during addiction, participants will better be able to...